Correspondence
Missing Defra statutory instruments
16.On 9 September 2019 we wrote to the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to ask about six statutory instruments which were considered by the Committee, when they were laid initially before Parliament as proposed negative instruments, but were then not sent to the Committee for regular scrutiny when they were laid under the negative procedure in December 2018. The Department also failed to send the six instruments to the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. In her response of 10 October, the Permanent Secretary apologises for the oversight and explains that the Department has carried out a review of its internal processes since the oversight and has made a series of improvements to ensure robust arrangements for delivering its statutory instruments to Parliament. The correspondence is published at Appendix 2.